On Thursday 01 February 2007 19:43, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > On 2/1/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thursday 01 February 2007 18:55, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > > > For those who may not know, SIP is for the audio stream and H.323 is > > > for the video stream. > > > > I'm no expert here, but that doesn't make sense to me. GnomeMeeting ran > > with H.323 before SIP had been brought into the package. SIP and H.323 > > are quite separate protocols, as far as I'm aware. SIP began to be > > important with the advent of VOIP, which was why it had to become part of > > ekiga. As it is, you can use either protocol with ekiga. > > I am no expert either. I could be very wrong but I was just under the > impression that Ekiga still did the video portion with H.323 and did > audio with SIP if requested. It is a confusing mish-mash of clients > out there and I don't know of any pure SIP client that handles video > even if SIP can handle a video stream. There seems to be a reluctance > to do everything with SIP. Even Gizmo uses SIP for voice and > Jabber/XMPP for text when text can be done with SIP/SIMPLE. > > Maybe XMPP promises to unify audio/video/text but that has yet to happen. Ekiga does audio and video with SIP Anne
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